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Conway, Kansas

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in Jackson Township. It lies in ZIP code area 67460. The Survey maps it on the Conway quadrangle.

Conway within McPherson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Conway between 2016 and 2020, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service132
4 July 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreKansas Forest Servicenot named
23 June 2018Debris and open burning3.0 acresKansas Forest Service103
28 February 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKansas Forest Service28
22 February 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreKansas Forest Service119

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McPherson County

Storms near this place

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conway in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2007: 8 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2007HailConway-no account filed
March 2002HailConway-no account filed
April 2002HailConway-no account filed
April 2001HailConway-no account filed
August 2001HailConway-no account filed
July 1995HailConway-no account filed
July 1995HailConway-no account filed
July 1995HailConway-no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindConway-no account filed

Every storm recorded in McPherson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Groveland6.1 miles16
McPherson6.5 miles16
Windom6.6 miles15
Hilton7.7 miles16
Inman9.5 miles14
Elyria10.1 miles16
Johnstown10.3 miles16
New Gottland10.8 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 484354. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.